SIPTU threaten boycott of system gauging interest in decentralisation

STATE agency workers represented by SIPTU may boycott Government plans to set up an online applications system for civil servants willing to decentralise.

The central recommendation of the Government’s decentralisation implementation group report, issued last week, was that a Central Applications Facility (CAF) be established to gauge how many public servants are actually willing to relocate.

The CAF - which the Government says will be the first true indicator of interest in decentralisation - is to be up and running by the end of next month.